Small business policy
Papers from the ISBE Annual Conference
Guest editor: Bob Ritchie
Guest editorial
A burden on business? Reviewing the evidence base on regulation and small-business performance 799 – 814
John Kitching
The impact of sector, specialisation, and space on business birth rates in the United Kingdom: a challenge for policy? 815 – 826
Michael Anyadike-Danes, Mark Hart
Influences on small-firm compliance-related behaviour: the case of workplace health and safety 827 – 846
Robert Baldock, Philip James, David Smallbone, Ian Vickers
Delivering ICT to ethnic minority businesses: an action-research approach 847 – 867
Martin Beckinsale, Monder Ram
Can small businesses help reduce employment exclusion? 869 – 884
John Kitching
Making policy choices in nonfinancial business support: an international comparison 885 – 908
Kevin F Mole, George Bramley
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New patterns of governance in the English region: assessing their implications for spatial planning 909 – 927
Graham Pearce, Sarah Ayres
Westminster Executive meets local government ‘culture’: overview and scrutiny in three English county councils 929 – 946
Mark Sandford
